Provoke Not Your Children to Wrath (Part 3)

Pearls of Biblical Wisdom for Believers and Fathers

Season 3 Episode 35 This sermon is a the THIRD in a three part series. All three sermons have as the goal to give father's wisdom as to not provoking their children to wrath.

Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

One major aspect of this sermon is the critical importance of being spirit filled in parenting. Ephesians 5:18-21 is the foundation of wives relationship to their husbands (5:22-24), husbands relationship to their wives (5:25-29), children's relationship to their parents (6:1-3), father's relationship with their sons and daughters (6:4), and servants relationship with their masters (6:6-9)

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Other Scriptures referred to in the sermon: Daniel 6:3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Luke_1:80 (John the Baptist) And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. 1st Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. When Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 explaining the blessedness of life he began with: Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.